L2/04-425

Find out what people are using currently with regard to Greek Letter Lowercase Heta and Greek Letter Capital Heta. Is this used in computerized form at all? Evidence does seem to be pretty good. Look at the Cyrillic precedents.

Report to Nick Nicholas re L2/04-388 (Greek Letter Lowercase Heta and Greek Letter Capital Heta) that the case is reasonably clear. The urgency of encoding is not clear. Have Nick get feedback and submit a "final" proposal for a future UTC meeting.

Create an FAQ documenting the range of acceptable glyph variants. Start with Figure 7.1 from the book. Include a pointer to MS Typography website for more information. See also 1.0 glyph variations in the book, and also include U+01B3.

Review the other 299 glyphs discussed in document L2/04-408 (CJK Extension B) with potential glyph errors plus known glyph errata after the initial publication of Unicode 3.2 and submit to WG2 as a Unicode/US contribution.

Follow up with Manoj Jain on proposal L2/04-358 (Gujarati fractions). Request some minor revision and answer a few questions to improve the proposal, then ask him to resubmit it for the next meeting. Thank him for the submission.

Update the proposal L2/04-410 with documentary evidence, name correction, and other editorial updates. Include character properties and linebreak properties. Forward to Mike Ksar by Dec 31, 2004 for consideration at the WG2 meeting in January, 2005.

Write and post a PRI text stating that the UTC is considering adding 5 chillu characters for Malayalam, with more pros and cons spelled out. Post by December 17, 2004 to close January 31, 2005.Consult with Eric Muller re the details.

Post a Public Review Issue for UAX #9 when the draft is available from Mark.Note when posting the UAX #9 PRI, include clarifying the change that has been made to directional run definition. Note the update of UAX #9 is forthcoming -- see UTC #100 for authorization to post the update.

Update the Unicode Collation Algorithm and data for consensus 100-C31 (handling ignorable characters, invisible characters, and the use of combining grapheme joiner to break contractions or to have special effects), and review the description of combining grapheme joiner in the standard.

Remove the values for unassigned code points in UCD.html and add a note instead to UAX #9 about the location of this data. Add information to derived core properties for the next version of the Unicode Standard.

Update Ken's document L2/03-403 to reflect that this is a generl purpose mechanism that should be used in specific circumstances and incorporate other comments made during the meeting. Unicode 4.1. (CGJ)

Draft language for consensus 96-C20 (on the effect of combining grapheme joiner to prevent canonical re-ordering of combining marks during normalization) for inclusion into Unicode 4.1 and create a FAQ describing this effect as well.

Take over action item 91-A082 from Asmus Freytag. Point to W3C documentation and prepare a web document on the known discrepancies in E. Asian mapping tables. Also get data from Mark Davis and the ICU team.

Contact other organizations (Basis, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Xerox) with traditional and simplified mappings, asking them to make those mappings available for inclusion in Unihan.txt. Do this after Unicode 3.2 has been published.